2005-06-24: I wrote a chess article on the 4. Qxd4 Sicilian opening recently; it's now been published by the University chess society's magazine, Dragon.
2004-09-01: I gave a talk on recording Go games today. Here
are the slides, and a video (DivX,
22M or Quicktime, 37M) of the demo part of the talk: recording a live game via a
webcam.
2004-08-25: I've been looking at determining the state of a Go
board from photographs. Some promising early results:
2003-10-22: If you have a Dell Latitude X300 laptop, this patch against i810switch0.5 allows you to enable the external VGA and laptop's LCD at the same time, by correcting an assumption about which pipe to send graphics for the external display plane through.
Some of my local configuration files are available here: .emacs, .gnus and .zshrc.
Things I did in a previous life, in reverse-chronological-ish order: